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[From the American Temperance Union.]
Temperance Ode for the 4tli -July, JBl^.
By Rev. E. F. Hatfield,anil deJicateil to the Washing
tonians throughout the United States.
Air— " Yankee Doodle
Wo come, tve come, ill urateful bands,
To join tbc celebration
Os that blest day, when patriot hands
Subscribed “the Declaration.”
Swell your voices loud and long;
It is a joyful story:
Praises to our God belong,
We’ll give him all the glory. *
Our fathers scorned to bend the knee
At Brit dn’s lordly pleasure;
They vow’d that freemen they would be,
Or lose their lives and treasure.
Swell your voices, &c.
They nobly dared “ THE PLEDGE” to sign,
And break the chains that bound them ;
They trusted in a Pow’r Divine,
And He with vict’ry crown’d them.
Swell your voices, &e.
’ Twas theirs by blood to bring about
The glorious 11 Revolution ,”
To usher in with song and shout
The Nation’s “ConstitutionV
Swell your voices, &c.
But we ran tell of heavier chains,
That Liquor threw around us;
Yet not a link—thank God!—remains
Os what so strongly hound us.
Swell your voices, &c.
Though Slaves we were to Beer and Rum,
To Cider, Wine, and Brandy,
The cursed thraldom we’ve o’ercome,
And Water's now the dandy.
Swell your voices, &c.
Os peace and comfoit, frirndsand wealth,
The tyrant had bereft us;
No reputation, home, or health,
Nor life, would he have left us.
Swell your voices, &c.
But—God be praised!—we spurned his yoke, ,
And burst his chains asunder;
The Pledge, the Pledge our bondage broke,
And now we live to wonder.
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Swell your voices, &c.
“ Come Sign,” they said, “ and freemen be,
“ Come sign the Declaration”—
Wc sign’d the Pledge, and now we’re free
From Rum’s contamination.
Swell your voices, &c.
Who would havo‘hough’ so slight a tiling
Could work such transformations,
Could so much joy and comfort bring
To us and our relations'!
Swell your voices, &c.
Hark--hark! —the shout from hill and dale,
Through all the land is swelling,
And tens of thousands tell the tale;
It comes from every dwelling.
Swell your voices, &c.
Oh! on this day to freedom dear,
What cause have we tor gladness,
Who have abjur’d Rum, Wine, and Beer, —
Those cursed founts of sadness!
Swell your voices, &c.
God speed “ TPIE CAUSE,” till every sot,
His sin and shame confessing,
Shall haste to share our happy lot,
And learn how great our blessing!
Swell your voices, &c.
In a Scrape. —A Washingtonian entered the
house of a friend, and presented the Pledge.
“Your cause is a good one,” said the friend,
“and is doing much good, but I will not sign the
Pledge myself.” “ Why not,” asked the Wash
ingtonian, li you acknowledge it is good, then
why not take hold and help it along!” “ Why,
I said I ivould’nt,” replied he, “and you would’nt
have me tell a lie, would you!” “John,” he
continued, speaking to a little son who was
standing by, “ bring me a stick of wood.” “No
I won’t, said the boy. “Why! what do you
mean, by talking that way to your father,” ex
claimed he, manifesting symptoms of ancrer.
“ Father, I did wrong,” said the boy repentant
ly. “ Then go along and do what I told you,”
demanded he. “ Why, father, I said I would’nt.”
returned theson. “ and you would’nt have metell
a lie would you !" Organ,
How Cruel.! —An individual of my acquaint
ance was a few years since one of the most loath
some drunkards that ever lived. Soon as the
temperance reform commenced in the place where
he lived, he abandoned his cups and became a
completely reformed man. And net only did he
retorm himself, but lie devotee! all his energies to
the promotion ofthecause he had espoused. His :
zeal and untiring activity excited the hatred of;
some eit ins professed friends, who were the de
votees of B e.-;;bus. and they then proceeded to j
lay snare s for his feet, not with any intention of
doing him an injury, but to mortify and discomfit
tiie friends of temperance. lie, under the guise
01 friendly conviviality, was induced to drink
wine with them several times, till the flames of
his once master appetite were again enkindled,
and he drank again and again of ardent spirit,
till he was intoxicated. Then these men tri
umphed, and far and near the fact was proclaim
ed, and the tempciance reform denounced as a
cheat, and as the child of designing men, the
offspring of hypocrisy. But their day of rejoicing
j was quickly over, Mr. —— saw and repented of
: his error, made a most humble confession, and
1 in the strength of the strongest resolved that no
! liquor which contained aicoliol should again pass
j his lips. To this resolution he has firmly adher
ed ; and his fall, while it humbles him to the dust,
j proves an excitement to still more zealous and
i determined efforts for the promotion of that cause
to which he is so deeply indebted. But wiiat
language is sufficiently strong to reprobate the
cruel conduct of those unkind friends! To
manifest their hatred to a reform so salutary as is
i that of temperance, to cast down the countenan-
I ecs of its advocates, and to fill them with dismay,
I they would not hesitate to use the direct means
i of dragging hack to a bondage worse than that
under which tbc Algerinecaptivegrroans, a man,
their friend, their neighbor, exposing him to the
misery and degradation of a drunkard’s life, and
to the shame and the hopelessness of a drunkard’s
death. '1 hey were defeated, and hence we may
take the op|>ortu:iity of saying that the temper
ance cause will ultimately succeed, notwithstand
ing all the secret or open machinations of its
opposers. As well may men hope to turn the
seasons from their course, or roll back the resist
less tides of the ocean, as to arrest the inarch of
temperance toward its day of perfect glory. The
genius of America has sort forth the” decree that
intemperance within her borders must cease, and
it must he so.
Once again.—- Those who have been intemper
ate must wholly disuse all aleohlic drinks, or the
day of perfect reform to them, wi!l never come
this side the grave. The fire they are striving to
quench must receive no fuel; n breath must tan
it, otherwise it will destroy them utterly. I never I
knew a reformation permanent, if the'individual
indulged in the use ol any thing containing alco
hol. Such an one must conti nt himself with na
ture’s simple beverage, or he is lost. L.
The Drunkard’s Testimonv. —At the late
temperance meeting in Boston, several reformed
inebriates bore this testimony as wc find it in the
Mercantile Journal.
They told the story of their lives—the lives of
drunkards--that they might do something to
warn those present to avoid the misery they had
themselves endured. Said one, and Ini the
youngest, “ I began to drink rum at twelve years
of age. A rich man now in the city, Ido not
name Ifira, sold me rum when I was not tall
enough to reach the top of the counter.” After
much more, he gave the following: *• 1 had ele
ven companions, all healthy young men-—all
doing well in our business. We used to meet to
drink, and to gamble; we continued our course
for some time, and what is the history of us
twelve! Six have died drunkards—two have
enlisted in the state-ships— two are in tiie house
of correction—one is a drunkard still—l alone,
have escaped to tell you.” “ Who. who was it,”
exclaimed the young man, “ who have for these
many years sold us this rum ! Os them, in the
sight of God, I demand those who have gone
down to the drunkard’s grave, or are living the
drunkard’s life—where, where are my compan
ions!' Here his voice failed, and convulsive
sobbing took its place. The effect was intense.
Men—hard-listed men, with child like hearts,
were seen with floods of tears washing their
weather-beaten faces—mourning, fit mourninw,
over such remembered dead.—[Genius of Temp.
A new class of men are stepping upon the the
atre of life, ot whose worth and power the commu
nity has heretofore been ignorant, we mean the
reformed diunkard. Many of these men are the
inferiors of none in talent or in the powers of
intellectual greatness, and are destined, we doubt
not, to take a prominent part in the duties de
volving upon the freemen of this country. Here
then is a great moral force added to our greatness
and power—for the power of mind over matter, is
the great distinctive feature of modern civiliza
tion. Who then, is there, who will not rejoice
in the triumphs of a cause, which is to disenthrall
the mind ol man from bondage, and brino it to
the aid and support ol society.—[ Water Bucket.
Th raxrsE.j-One dav a Quaker
" rumst ’N cr : some questions
aboid|^ra^U> hiskey bttpiness, which disturbing
his little, hi eased hin.self with the
oft fia 1 vo, thatdie ” sold to sober persons
''"Wefh, said shef and does that better the
ease |[ Is It better to make drunkards out of so
drunkarliP Ttis caiiie upon him like a thun
derbolt; inipik his best excuse, and he stop
ped the busiwss of making drunkards
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Straining at a Gnat.—“l don't like these
temperance meetings on Sunday." said a profess
or of reiigion not very far from a certain part of
Chester county. “I don’t like your Sunday
meetings, and so long as I have anything todo
with the school house I will keep you out of it. j
It’s enough to allow you the use ofit at other
times.”
11 Then you don’t beiieve in doing good on the
i Sabbath day,’ was the reply.
Yes, 1 believe in doing good, but not in that
way. I think there should be a law against such
I gatherings, just as there is against working and
j trading on Sundays.” ■
“ A How me to as-k you. , if you think it
is wrong to sell liquor on Sunday 1”
“ Certainly ! It’s a downright sin.”
“ Well, then you think your neighbor at the
i tavern does wrong by selling at his liar on
I the Sabbath 1”
Here, the good man looked very serious, and,
after maiure deliberation, replied,
“ Yes, —ahem, —yes, —1 suppose.—of course he
! does.”
“ And did you not sign his recommendation to
j the court, on tiie strength of which he obtained a
| license, and by virtue of which be now sells li
' quor on the Sabbath ]”
The zealous professor twisted about as if lie
i had swallowed,something which disagreed with
’ him, and at length stammered out,
"Yes.—ahem,— 1 did sign it,—but, —ahem, —
that, —ahem, —that is not what I was taikiu"
about.”
’‘Oh, Water! Water!—that man, of all crea
ted things, should turn from thee with loathing
and disgust. Man, to whom it stands in minis
tering attendance in all its forms—Man, whom
it blesses in blessing ail things else; whether
bearing aloft his ships upon ti.e salt and buoyant
wave in its ocean home, or hanging in cloudy
mantles above, to protect him, and shade the earth
from the too intense' and scorching rays of hea
ven; or descending in showers, or in dews, to
seatte- fragrance and bloom, to charm his senses,
and to nourish vegetation for his food ; or rolling
in rivers, bursting into fountains, or leapiiio m
. j cascades -congealing into ice, expanding Fnto
steam, extinguishing flames—-the' vehicle of
i commerce, feeder of plants and flowers, fertiliser
of earth, tereperer of the air, armor of cities, as
i suager of thirst—friend, comforter, cleanser, a ly,
j co-worker with man through life, and last luxu
j rv of sensation in death, to cool him for the grave.
1 Oh, that he should have turned from Nature and
thee in search of a substitute, and found, crin
vented and compounded rather—tor he did not
| find it—a fluid distillation from hell itself, abhor
rent to all the policy of Nature, and deranging
; her whole system us economy and power, Juiii”
eient not only to kill the body, but to transform,
change, translate, dehumanize the mind!”
. Marshall..
Early Rising.—There is nothing tiiat contri
: butes more to the maintenance of health and
i elasticity of muscle, than early rising. To
'! breathe tlie fresh air of the morning before the
i freshness ot the dew has passed, not only tends
I to a joyous lightness of spirits, but imparts to the
| animal powers a tone that nothing else can pro
; duco. 1 nt* late riser, after lying in a close room
| for hours, comes down to his breakfast with Ins
i senses benumbed from the effects ot his slumbers,
j and partakes of his repast moic as a thing or
j course than in obedience to the demands of “na
ture, and when he lias finished ins meal, goes
forth to business oppressed with lassitude and
want of general energy. The early riser, on the
contrary, so soon as the quantity of rest which
tiie body requires has been indulged in, comes
forth in the early morning, when every thino
breathes freshness. The flowers, as if invigora
ted by the dews of the preceding night, exhale
their most delicious perfume, and gliiter’in their
richest hues. Animated nature awakens in obe- !
dience to the calls of the god of day, and tile
beasts ot the field go forth to enjoy the verdure
whilst moist and untouched by the glowing kisses
jof the sun. I here is a sprightliness upon the
face of creation that infuses itself impeiceptiblv
into his feeling, and enables him to enter on his j
daily duties with animation and confidence.
When he goes to his first meal it is not with
carelessness or loathing, but with appetite and
relish; the body calls for it, and the organs.
: ready to receive, draw from it nourishment, which
in their turn they transmit to every part of the
system. The muscular fibres are braced up, and
instead of lassitude or weariness, there is a sen
sation of activity throughout the system. But
independently of the healthlulness produced by j
early rising, those who practice i’ not only expe
rience the earliest beauties of the day, when
creation, unwrapping itselffrom the saMe’mantle
of night, stands forth arrayed in ot a new
being, but they add much to the term of their
active existence. Sleep is the counterfeit of
death ; our energies lulled into a state ot inactiv- :
ity, we lie insensible, whilst time, huriying on
ward, bears us to the portals of eternity I It is a
fact worthy of notice, but which few attend to
that he who sleeps eight hours out of four and
twenty, is cut off from the great end of beino use
ful to his fellow-men for one-third of his time of
life, and that every moment rescued from the
state of oblivion, is so much added to our mortal
existence. *
Fame is like a shaved pig with a greased tail
and it is only when it has slipped through the
hands of some thousands, that some fellow, bv
mere chance, holds on to it, - ’ '
A wag in Boston suggests that the Temper
ance cause should be carried on with ardent
spirit.-[ Tte-Totaler.
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vmm wssr,
OR, TOTAL ABSTINENCE ADVOCATE,
Devoted to the Cause of 'l'cmperance,—published
semi-monthly, in the City of Augusta,
BY JAMES McCAFFERTY.
\\ s ctr,ail ’ l > desirable that such a publication
should find its way into eveiy house,th.- low ptice
I of subscript tun will, we hope, guaranty it a wide cir
! aulat ‘on. Such u paper w e believe is required ill tlii3
j community, especially at the presi nt tinie.
The detii ninaiiun onr citizens have evinced,
to dnve theDestioy er Irom the land,has awakened the
most intempeiate to as, nse of dutv. This should bo
| bailey as an inn. n and harbinger of goon. The spirit
1 1 Hi loimatton is awakened thiouphoutthe lengih and
bieamn of onr country—the Temperance Cause is
evei v where happily advancing, healing down all op
position, scattering blessings on every hand, drying up
the teats ol the distressed and causing the heai’t uftl.e
w idow and the drunkard’s w ife to si: g foil „v. It is a
gloiioaseause—iliecause ol humanity and vii'tue: our
country s highest good is involved—her prosperity
honor and sab tv Oh ! then, let us not prove recreant;
but come boldly to the rescue, and with united heart
and hand, assist in del.ver ing oui beloved countrv from
! slavery lo ihe worst, most ci nel of enemies. *
fri.■ thu ,IL ' cessil > of £ "cli a work upon the
tnends off emjirance, nothing can be more appropri
ate than tne closingparagrai h ofa report from Mi. S.
nn ln "bf“tigable T. mperance agent.
m„sii„i! teVl 'l oU ”, ras ' ncl ' s ma -' 1,6 " se <3. the Cause
" 1(l ‘out publications to diffuse informa
.rt ni, ee| : u r paa i" ,Lr, s ' ; U >ov alone keep the sub
tnr!.! 1 8 b,-fore l l , e l ,ublic minil - Temperance lcc
„aroUSl' , lht ' from .heir slumbers,
strengthen the weak, confi.m the waveiing and re
com,« , w ; ndere . r ; b "‘ ,he publication
onvvani r 0 0 i ' n "i. tb thelr cheering accounts of the
of theiause. xvittheir inteiesting
antc ' ,otes - a «d with their stiiring at,peals, to
pe mit the interest wholly to subside, or the slumbers
tli/freT'?”," nieu long to remain '.ndistuibed. If
ine arrival of the tempeiam e paper dots not excite a
hajUt aJ 1 tt n * 5t m br ‘ astol tht * the children
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and, ted .n" lth s' th !' glee and ' nthusia mos childhood
,',° l . : and the stated return of such a mom
tor,the interest is kept up and the cause advances.-’
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